Top 10 performances of Ty Detmer's BYU football career

One of two games in Detmer's final season to end in a tie, the Cougars and Aztecs battled to a standstill, but not before each team's quarterback broke the 500-yard barrier. In fact, Ty almost hit 600 yards, ending up with 31 completions on 54 attempts for 599 yards and six touchdowns. He led the Cougars back from a 28-point deficit for the tie, snatching a Holiday Bowl berth away from the Aztecs.

I remember many of those games well, many of which I saw live thankfully. I was
at the U. game in person and it was Jim Fassell's last year there. The
Utes defense was truly inept and BYU could have put up 100 points if they wanted
to in that game...

Maybe Detmer wasn't the greatest pro but he
has to be considered one of the greatest college players that ever lived. To
see him and Marshall Faulk do battle was terrific.

Oh, such nice passing numbers. Seems like just yesterday that a certain BYU OC
spoke about returning to the glory years of traditonal BYU offense &
vertical passing attack. Silly me. I bought-in to the talk hook, line and
sinker..... for about 3-4 games before it was obvious this particular OC was in
way over his head.